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Done something stupid... CDROM boot hangs at "Setup is inspecting" - nothing more

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justinmann

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Okay, so, I was feeling my oats this morning and decided I'd install server 2003 on my machine next to my windows XP install, (different logical drives). Everything went fine until I went to reboot after the base install of server 2003.. at which time, it sat blankly staring at me. Yeeks... so, I quickly think, well, I'll just put in the XP disc and fix the boot portion of the drive... hahaha, not so lucky... when I put the cd in the drive, and then hit the keyboard to boot from CDROM first, it spins up the drive, says "setup is inspecting your machine" and then the screen blanks and the monitor sits there and stares at me blankly... joy! Any windows disc does this same thing... so I'm at a loss. I'm currenly downloading a debian build so I can get back into the system.. I'll install lilo or something so I can get back in.
I've tried resetting the bios, checked the settings in the bios, but nothing.

I have an MSI Platiunum 4 mb, 1024mb ram, a raid 1 config of 2 SATA drives (Seagate) and a PCIE 5300 video card.
Anyone have any ideas as to what happened and how to fix it?

thanks for your time!
Justin
 
Heh. I remember I had the exact same problem, and the problem was fixed when I put my overclocked cpu back to stock. But I can see you resetted the bios, hmm.

Damn, the only thing I can think of is that you're overclocking. In any install of any OS, I always install w/ stock cpu speeds.
 
is server 2003 the same as win 95/98/ME in the sense that it likes to boot off the first logical boot partition......whereas XP can boot from any partition????? not sure myself....

 
Interestingly enough, it booted fine off of a linux disc! Well, that got me in enough to reinstall Win2003.
I was stupid when I set 2003 that first time. I thought that it *might* have the raid drivers built into the installer- hahahah- anyway... I suppose when the install disc had the computer inspect the system upon booting into the install program it couldn't make any sense of the drive configuration, as everything was in the wrong place. 🙂 oh well... live and learn.

Now, I reinstalled 2003 first, and then reinstalled xp, and all seemed to be going well. XP was running along quite fine... Of course, now when I try to boot into server 2003 it simply reboots itself. Oh well. 🙂 I read a little something online suggesting that I should install the operating systems in the order of their release, so that the NTLDR is the most recent version...
Anyone know how I could replace that? Well, I'll keep digging away here. 🙂
Justin
 
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